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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
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"I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood."

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